Description

Merrick Power Bites are all-natural, soft and chewy treats with big taste and industry-leading levels of protein packed into every bite. They start with real deboned meat as the #1 ingredient, with added nutrition from fresh fruits and vegetables. Perfect for rewarding or training, your dog is sure to love Power Bites!

Key Benefits

Real beef is the #1 ingredient

Grain-free and gluten-free for food-sensitive pets

Antioxidant-rich with sweet potatoes, apples and blueberries

Made from quality ingredients from local growers

Perfect for rewarding or training, your dog is sure to love Power Bites!

Caloric Content

2,640 kcal/kg, 5 kcal/treat

Guaranteed Analysis

Crude Protein

16.0% min

Crude Fat

4.0% min

Crude Fiber

4.0% max

Moisture

28.0% max

Feeding Instructions

Treat responsibly: choose treats as recommended based on the size of your dog. For the safety of your pets, observation is recommended when giving your pet treats or chews. Keep fresh water available at all times. Serve treats responsibly as part of a complete & balanced diet.

About Merrick Grain-Free Dog Food

Whole Health Made Right

Merrick Grain-Free recipes offer dogs with food sensitivities an all-natural, grain-free canine diet with leading levels of quality protein, along with farm-fresh fruits and vegetables for a complete and balanced diet. Only the finest, freshest ingredients are included in these flavorful blends that are harvested from trusted, local ranchers and farmers for quality and sustainability assurance.

It Starts With Protein

Dogs thrive on quality protein and healthy fats. To promote the overall health of your pet, Merrick Grain-Free recipes feature a guaranteed balance of 55% animal proteins, healthy fats, fresh produce, and vitamins and minerals. Merrick Grain-Free starts with real and wholesome USDA-inspected deboned meat, poultry or fish as the first ingredient. This means that your pet will get more wholesome protein with every meal. Quality protein provides the amino acids necessary for building strong muscles and a healthy metabolism.

One Batch at a Time

Merrick Grain-Free recipes only use quality ingredients from real whole foods for a nutritious dog food with health you can see. Feel good knowing that every bag of Merrick Grain-Free dog food was cooked in the USA in their own organically certified kitchen, one batch at a time. From their kitchen to yours, all grain-free recipes include no meat by-products or artificial preservatives, and absolutely no ingredients from China.

Benefits Worth Barking Over

Every recipe has high levels of omega-6 and 3 fatty acids that aid in maintaining a healthy skin and coat, plus powerful levels of glucosamine and chondroitin to foster healthy hips and joints. To support and improve healthy digestive function, each recipe includes highly digestible meat proteins, peas, apples and blueberries. And you won't find corn, wheat, soy or potatoes in any Merrick grain-free recipes.

Treat Your Pets Naturally

Merrick offers a variety of grain-free and gluten-free treats that are not only enticing for your pup, but also provide a nutritional boost to keep him on his A-game all day, every day. Perfect for training and rewarding dogs, these treats always feature real, deboned meat as the number one ingredient and never have any artificial preservatives or fillers. From soft and chewy Power Bites to crunchy, oven-baked Kitchen Bites and Jerky Chips, you'll be sure to find the perfect treat for your good dog.

Organic Alfalfa: Rich source of calcium and serves as a good source of fiber, vitamins and carotene.

Recipe

Texas Beef + Sweet Potato

Chicken + Sweet Potato

Salmon + Sweet Potato

Duck + Sweet Potato

Lamb + Sweet Potato

Buffalo + Sweet Potato

Blends

Beef, Lamb & Rabbit

Lamb, Buffalo & Venison

Turkey, Duck & Quail

Salmon, Whitefish & Trout

Beef, Pork & Turkey

Chicken

Protein Levels

38%

38%

34%

38%

30%

38%

Ingredient Breakdown

70% Animal Proteins 30% Produce, Vitamins and Minerals

70% Animal Proteins 30% Produce, Vitamins and Minerals

55% Animal Proteins 45% Produce, Vitamins and Minerals

70% Animal Proteins 30% Produce, Vitamins and Minerals

55% Animal Proteins 45% Produce, Vitamins and Minerals

70% Animal Proteins 30% Produce, Vitamins and Minerals

Features

Deboned meat as the #1 ingredient

Rich in Omega fatty acids

Powerful levels of glucosamine and chondroitin

No corn, wheat, soy or gluten ingredients

No ingredients from China

Recipe

Rabbit + Chickpeas

Turkey + Sweet Potato

Venison + Chickpeas

Senior (Chicken + Sweet Potato)

Healthy Weight (Beef + Chicken)

Protein Levels

36%

38%

36%

32%

32%

Ingredient Breakdown

70% Animal Proteins 30% Produce, Vitamins and Minerals

70% Animal Proteins 30% Produce, Vitamins and Minerals

70% Animal Proteins 30% Produce, Vitamins and Minerals

55% Animal Proteins 45% Produce, Vitamins and Minerals

55% Animal Proteins 45% Produce, Vitamins and Minerals

About Merrick

Merrick believes whole foods not only taste better, but are better for your pet, and handmade recipes are much better than scientific formulas. That's why Merrick's been making pet food in their own kitchen for more than 25 years. Produced in small batches, each recipe is closely monitored to ensure it delivers the perfect balance of nutrients guaranteed right on the label. Merrick makes food to be fuel, not filler, and their wide variety of protein-rich dry and canned foods and treats means your pet will enjoy every second of his meal.

I chose this item for the great ingredients! I didn’t have any ingredients I couldn’t pronounce or identify! My Pom and my long haired chihuahua both agreed that it doesn’t smell very good and after the taste test was done for five minutes and these treats were still laying on the floor, they decided maybe it’s like garbage, it doesn’t smell great but tastes fabulous? They slowly mouthed them then took the plunge and bit down and swallowed. Just to be sure I gave them each another. They both got a drink and left them. I picked them up off the floor after an hour. Decision made they don’t like them. Ashame because I was impressed with ingredients and the size was perfect for training treats. MyI chose this item for the great ingredients! I didn’t have any ingredients I couldn’t pronounce or identify! My Pom and my long haired chihuahua both agreed that it doesn’t smell very good and after the taste test was done for five minutes and these treats were still laying on the floor, they decided maybe it’s like garbage, it doesn’t smell great but tastes fabulous? They slowly mouthed them then took the plunge and bit down and swallowed. Just to be sure I gave them each another. They both got a drink and left them. I picked them up off the floor after an hour. Decision made they don’t like them. Ashame because I was impressed with ingredients and the size was perfect for training treats. My dogs eat raw squash, peas, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots even broccoli but they wouldn’t eat a treat with beef as first ingredient! They have spoke I’m sorry I can’t score you better than a three if they won’t eat them!… more

Change was a good response to previous negative reviews!

By clarec58
on Feb 16, 2018

As many of the other reviewers stated, I was initially very upset when I thought I was buying the same small treats but I received the larger size. I later found out, though, that Merrick had created multiple different sizes of the same treat recipe as a response to the negative reviews written by large-breed owners. Genius if you ask me! The previous size is just now packaged as a separate product specific to small breed dogs. I have three dogs, a terrier mix and two labs. My two labs could barely taste these treats because they were so small before but now that they're bigger, they LOVE them and I love that I can give them Merrick quality grain-free treats for training.

Changed product

By sancalgal
on Feb 13, 2018

This company has hugely changed the size of the treat. We purchased it originally because description and reviews stated that it was great for small breed dogs who had trouble chewing larger treats. Well, the bigger, better size is about 5 times the original size. Our miniature dachshunds can no longer eat them unless we cut them up--not an easy task with a puffy 5 star shaped treat! Back on the hunt for a SMALL tender treat! Why did you change, Merrick?

Both my pups Love Merrick Power Bites

By SuzyK
on Jan 23, 2018Top 1000 Contributor

These are tiny bites. I’m using them to teach my new rescue her basic commands. Her older brother is helping me :) he’s a little overweight so these are also perfect for not adding to his weight @ being tiny. If you’re looking for a medium size treat, these are not for you. These are perfect size for training.
I have recommended them to family who are also training their pups.

Much Larger

By DogMom
on Jan 29, 2018

I used to love these treats for training my dog! We got a puppy almost 2 months ago and I decided to order two more bags of these to use for training our new pooch. The treats are over twice as large as they used to be, which is really disappointing because they are now too big to use as treats throughout the day for the puppy. I wish I had known that the size of the treats had changed because I would have bought a different treat to use. My dogs still loved these treats but I could not use them in the way I had wanted to.

They Got Supersized - with no warning!

By Ownerofmickey
on Feb 12, 2018

This was a perfect treat, but they've been substantially increased in size, and there is no indication of that on the Chewy site. Please let us know that we're not getting what we assume we're getting! I understand from the Merrick site that what we think of as "normal" Power Bites are now available as Lil' Plates treats. I'll get those in the future. In the meantime, let us know!!!

Great for training

By DukeandDakota
on Feb 11, 2018

Both of our dogs loved these! We got them mostly for training with our 6 month old German Shepherd puppy and she can't get enough of them. They are small, however, we like to break them in half to make them into smaller rewards. Unlike other training treats we have tried these don't crumble as easy when split in half. We can't wait to try out the other flavors.

Why are they bigger than they used to be?

By Jenny
on Jan 26, 2018

These are my favorite treats to use for training and for putting in my dog's snuffle mat and treat ball because they are small and packed with nutrition. They also stay fresher for much longer than other small treats I've used in the past. I just ordered four more bags and was very disappointed to see they are now almost twice as big as they used to be! They were absolutely perfect before and I don't understand why they decided to make them bigger. Please go back to making them the original size!

Truman loves them!

By Lyniguez
on Feb 10, 2018

My Bernese mountain puppy absolutely loves these things! They have a powerful scent he can smell them a mile away and our dog trainer said that is what makes a training treat get a good result has far has motivation for dog is concerned. They are small so you don’t have to worry about too many calories or pup getting filled up I recommend.

Great, but size changed

By mnclayshooter
on Jan 28, 2018

These used to be our favorite training treat, but the started making them way bigger. We wish we could still get the small bites. The photo on chewy shows the original small ones. The size we have gotten recently have been more than 2x as big... Same name and packaging from what we can see. I attached a photo showing the packages and the sizes of the treats.